Italian Places
- Gary Adlestein |
- 1985 |
- 11.5 minutes |
- COLOR |
- SOUND
Rental Format(s): Super 8mm, 18 fps
Comprised of four short films on a single reel: SORRENTO, a shutter / stutter study of Italian street life (shooting through wooden shutters had the feel of a zoetrope); LA VECIA, awakening one morning to a light projection from the Grand Canal that Venetians call la vecia; BOMARZO, sacred wood monsters built by Turkish prisoners for Count Orsini in the 16th Century; EMBARKATION TO THE ISLE OF CAPRI, after Watteau and Fellini.
"An exquisite travel film." - Linda Gross, The Los Angeles Times; "Two of my favorites, SORRENTO and EMBARKATION, are very conceptually simple but highly elegant studies." - Tom Chomont, Independent Eye
Exhibition: Ann Arbor S8mm Festival; Collective for Living Cinema, NY; Inter-film, Berlin; LA Filmforum; Millennium, NY; Pasadena Filmforum; Pittsburgh Filmmakers; Quebec Int'l S8mm Festival; SF Cinematheque.